Over the week there were an awful lot of shows set in spare, semi-dark utilitarian spaces with pounding techno music and -- thank you Gucci -- at least one smoke machine.

So the shows set out of doors really stood out. Roberto Cavalli was in a public park in full view of dog walkers and pram-pushing parents.

Jil Sander's show was in a clean white space open to the sky and Missoni was set at a former factory courtyard where patchwork canopies hung overhead.

- What crisis? -

To be in Milan these past six days was to be only marginally aware of Washington and Pyongyang's escalating war of words, the latest deadly hurricanes and earthquakes or British Prime Minister Theresa May's big Brexit speech.

There were no current events on the catwalk here this season, a fact summed up by Giorgio Armani, who told reporters after his show: "It's not because it's a sad moment that I have to make women sad on the runway."